Daniel Dekany wrote: > Monday, March 2, 2009, 12:22:47 PM, Hussein Shafie wrote: >> Daniel Dekany wrote: >>> - In *DocBook* HTML tables, things are not supposed to be rendered >>> with bold in the thead and tfoot sections; it's not like if all td-s >>> had become th-s. Surely it's not laid down in the standards, but I >>> yet to see a HTML renderer that makes these bold, so you can call it >>> a de-facto standard. So, a quick fix in the CSS... >> If we do this, other users will probably complain. >> >> The fact that text inside thead and tfoot sections is rendered (on >> screen) using a bold font is useful in the context of a structured >> document editor. It makes it obvious that you are not inside a tbody. > > But this way it hides if you used th, or a td by mistake... and unless > you use a fancy tranformation that repeats footers/headers on each > pages, that's an even bigger problem. It's not like CALS, where there > is no such issue. Anyway, if you would indicate thead and tfoot by > giving the background a bit of tint, rather than showing it with a > potentially confusing font-weight, then both td VS th and thead VS > tbody would be clearly visible. (Different tints needed for tfoot and > thead, as tfoot is directly after the thead.)
OK. > Also, I notice that the default valign is "top" in XXE. It should be > "middle", as the HTML Specification states it. > I would say that the default valign is "baseline" in XXE. We'll carefully re-read the HTML standard and eventually, we'll make the rendering of HTML tables more compliant with the (de-jure) standard.
